Question

read the two excerpts.

emembering to never forget: dominican republic’s...\ by mark memmott:
the method his soldiers used in 1937 to try to identify those who would be killed was cruelly unique. when confronting someone in the lands along the border with haiti, they would hold up a sprig of parsley and ask what it was. if the person responded by trilling the
\ in perejil (spanish for parsley), he would be free to go. anyone who didn’t trill the
\ was thought to be a haitian creole speaker—and was likely to be killed.
\a genetics of justice\ by julia alvarez:
my father and mother were once again trapped in a police state. they laid low as best they could. now that they had four young daughters, they could not take any chances. for a while, that spark which has almost cost my father his life and which he had lighted...
which statements accurately compare the two passages? select three options.
□ each text describes the tributes and taxes that trujillo demanded.
□ each text describes how frightening it was to live under the dictatorship.
□ each text presents different information on the same topic.
□ each text presents different information from a different point of view.
□ each text describes how men and women were treated differently.

Explanation:

1. Analyze the first option: The first excerpt is about identifying people to kill, not tributes/taxes, so this is incorrect.
2. Analyze the second option: The first excerpt shows the cruelty of the dictatorship (identifying people to kill), the second shows the fear of living under it (parents laying low), so this is correct.
3. Analyze the third option: Both texts are about the Trujillo dictatorship but present different info (one about identification method, one about family's experience), so this is correct.
4. Analyze the fourth option: One text is a factual account of the identification method, the other is a personal family account, so different viewpoints, correct.
5. Analyze the fifth option: Neither text focuses on gender - based treatment, so incorrect.

Answer:

B. Each text describes how frightening it was to live under the dictatorship.
C. Each text presents different information on the same topic.
D. Each text presents different information from a different point of view.